Word: currier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artists named Maurer had shows in Manhattan. One was a 99-year-old curiosity, spruce and sprightly Louis Maurer, the last living Currier & Ives illustrator, whose traditional sporting prints and genre scenes had sold like hotcakes in the mid-19th Century. The other was slender, sad-eyed Alfred, his 62-year-old bachelor son, who painted hard-to-sell pictures of elongated, wistful shop girls and abstractions of heads and still lifes that were anything but traditional. Papa Maurer's show was a huge success to which son Alfy's was little more than a half-noticed footnote...
...week, they saw him again in a smashing new work by the same choreographer. Unlike her Lament, Choreographer Doris Humphrey's new Invention had no story and no characterization; it was pure dance, but with plenty of invention. By the time Limón & Co. (Betty Jones, Ruth Currier) had gotten through its four brief sections (a bright, gay solo, a duo, a meditative slow movement and a powerful recapitulation) they and Choreographer Humphrey had won an ovation. New works by other American Dance Festival regulars, including Sophie Maslow's fine but unfinished Festival, based on stories...
...Pete Bierre (Leverett), decisioned Bill Currier (Adams), 7 to 0. At 165, Pete McWilliams (Leverett) pinned Jack White (Adams) with a reverse nelson four seconds before the end of the first period...
William A. Currier of Adams House and Boston; Jubilee Committee; Union Dance Committee; Adams Dance Committee; Yard football; freshman and varsity wrestling...
...most admires Currier & Ives prints, which often reflect the same sentiments and the same details of rural life that her pictures do, in their less studied...